I got thrown out of music school for even listening to Fats Domino and Ray Charles. I was asked, 'What kind of music do you like to listen to?' and I said, 'Well, I do like Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky but I also like Fats Domino and Ray Charles,' and they literally said, 'Either forget about that or leave.'
‐‐ Steve Winwood
I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.
‐‐ Robert B. Parker
I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
‐‐ T. J. Perkins
I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?
‐‐ Patrick Ness
I got tired of depending on other people, and I had this strong desire to make music of my own. I decided to start writing my own tunes and just see what could happen.
‐‐ Leon Bridges
I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.
‐‐ Ikue Mori
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
‐‐ Bill Joy
I got tired of playing other people's songs.
‐‐ Gregg Allman
I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.
‐‐ Dee Dee Ramone
I got to a stage where tennis was the only thing in my life, and I didn't like that.
‐‐ Luke Mitchell
I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself.
‐‐ Chin Han
I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.
‐‐ Jane Goodall
I got to be more careful and more focused with my surroundings, because everybody wants to reach out to me, and I don't know if it's good or bad.
‐‐ Desiigner
I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.
‐‐ Dick Cheney
I got to Broadway a year after I came to New York. I starred in 'Butterflies Are Free' and got a Tony for it. Right out of the gate. Maybe that's why I wasn't very gracious about it. I wasn't driven. And right after 'Butterflies Are Free', I got married and then started a family. I always wanted that.
‐‐ Blythe Danner
I got to college and saw all of my friends going to these other schools and thought, 'You know, college is just a blank slate.' And I had an opportunity to go to different schools, but I chose Brown because it was unique and allowed you to be yourself as an individual and like I said, it's a blank slate.
‐‐ Masi Oka
I got to direct a human interest sports drama - to this day, one of my proudest achievements in my career and a source of undying pride.
‐‐ Bill Paxton
I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.
‐‐ T. J. Perkins
I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn't done the Stand.
‐‐ Corin Nemec
I got to do Disney Sunday movies. I got to do a TV pilot there. And it really helped me to realise that I needed to not just be a writer, but a producer, to see my work up on the screen the way I wanted it to look and play.
‐‐ Chris Carter
I got to do something I never do, which is go to Starbucks and read 'The New York Times' until 7 a.m. I took my daughter to school on the East Side, which was a lot of fun. And I admit I played Call of Duty, one of those war video games.
‐‐ Joe Scarborough
I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.
‐‐ Nathan Lane
I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.
‐‐ Jhonen Vasquez
I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
‐‐ Orlando Bloom
I got to experience a world championship with some great teammates.
‐‐ Kirk Gibson
I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.
‐‐ Mia Hamm
I got to fight every second, every minute and every round.
‐‐ Rau'Shee Warren
I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature. For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration.
‐‐ Meg Whitman
I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
‐‐ Parminder Nagra
I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.
‐‐ Zoe Cassavetes
I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.
‐‐ Antonio Villaraigosa
I got to have a TV show that really was the talk of the nation for a while there. So I'm a very lucky guy.
‐‐ Marc Cherry
I got to have about 15 minutes with Michelle Obama, and that was a big deal because you're like, 'Wow, I'm part of living history.' You know? I definitely think she could take me in an arm wrestling match.
‐‐ Ross Mathews
I got to host a radio show. I got a clothing range. I was the face of fashion week. I got to do a whole television show with kids.
‐‐ Ruby Rose
I got to know Australians well working on the 'Mad Max' franchise with director George Miller.
‐‐ Terry Hayes
I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
‐‐ Aaron Schock
I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time.
‐‐ Bob Edwards
I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.
‐‐ Marie Windsor
I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.
‐‐ Dick Schaap
I got to L.A., and they said I had to lose weight, let my hair grow and buy some dresses. I was nailing auditions with my readings, but they wouldn't hire me because I wasn't putting on the glam. It just didn't occur to me.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall
I got to L.A. in 2000, when we were coming off the '90s: women looked like men and the men all looked like women.
‐‐ Joe Manganiello
I got to learn from the American audience. Hearing what it is they're not getting. These are audiences, 35 to 40, an older demographic that controls seven to 10 trillion dollars. And the producers and distributors have convinced themselves this group doesn't go to the movies.
‐‐ Peter Riegert
I got to learn to surf.
‐‐ Sheryl Crow
I got to learn what does and doesn't work on screen. Because the turnaround is so fast, there's no messing around. You have to be on the ball.
‐‐ Rhys Wakefield
I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the stage. 'Dookie' was the first album I ever bought. I covered the whole of 'Nimrod' and he'd heard it. That was like the 11-year-old girl dreamed.
‐‐ Florence Welch
I got to make 'Trishakti' with Arshad Warsi, who was a newcomer at that time. The movie took three years to complete and became dated by the time it was released. The movie did not even get a proper release and bombed at the box office. It was a very bad patch of my life and a big disaster for my career.
‐‐ Madhur Bhandarkar
I got to meet Mark Hamill. He signed some Star Wars posters for us. I saw the fight scenes he had. He was really into making fun of himself and Star Wars.
‐‐ Shannon Elizabeth
I got to meet some of the best people I've ever met, and we all grew as people and as entertainers.
‐‐ Carrie Underwood
I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
‐‐ Sam Shepard
I got to play a real D-bag lawyer, and comb my hair really awfully and kiss Emma Stone, so it was a really wonderful day on set.
‐‐ Josh Groban